Quotes for All
It is Hillary’s [Clinton] star power that radiates to every corner of the ballroom. New York bigwigs, such as financial-media impresario Michael Bloomberg, attorney and labor mediator Theodore Kheel, and District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, crane to see her. Gail Sheehy
There’s a Theodore Roosevelt speech about the importance of being in the arena, whether you fail or you succeed, or you make a complete idiot of yourself, as long as you’re doing the best with what you have, using whatever knowledge you have to bring to the table at that moment. And you continue to … Read more
The best American writers have come from the hinterlands — Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college. Edward Abbey
Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore a year older than me, I soon became interested in biology and developed a respect for the importance of science and the scientific method. Frederick Sanger
In poetry, and in my study in graduate school, I was drawn to a particular poet, Theodore Roethke. I did a dissertation on \”The Evolution of Matter and Spirit in the Poetry of Theodore Roethke\” for my Ph.D. Frederick Lenz
John Kerry wants to be the hero in his own drama. He likes King Arthur and the Round Table. He likes the young swashbuckling Churchill, and he loved the early antics of Theodore Roosevelt. Douglas Brinkley
Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said no. Douglas Brinkley
What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? … Two Theodore Dreisers. Dorothy Parker
People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made. Doris Kearns Goodwin
Here is Theodore Roosevelt with all his faults and with all his strengths – the devoted family man, the passionate game hunter, the astute politician, the frustrated warrior. This is a deeply moving account of the last years of a very great man. David Herbert Donald